Locomotive baffle-wall.



A'. H. WLLLETT. LoCoMoTLvE BAFFLE WALL. APPUCATION FILED'AUGJM, 1914.1,143,095., Pateuta une 15, 12H5.

2 SHEETS-SHEET '1.

W/TNESSES:

I INVENTOR 2 SHETS-SHEET 2.

. Patented June 15, 1915.

V"A. H. WILLETT.

LOCOMOTIVE BFFLE WALL.

APPLICATION -HLED Aue.24. 1914.

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Be 'it known "uha L LFRED WLLETT, a citizen Q the naed Staes, resng@Vest New Yoyk, in the county of Hudson and Siate of ierw Jesey, haveinvented eerai new and useful mprovemznis, in Lawmot'e Bale-W'as; ofwhich. the iomug is a. speecat-ion.

This invention Telai-es loco bsx bas Walls, :m has? ence to the archbricks supprf; culation tubes to constitute smh in standad oms offha-box 'the bae walls o1; m'ches Le Vention to pavde a nove?. fol-m obrick which can be use on ube" ings of 'which Vary. Still :3110 the inveion resides in the pro improv/ea ck which, in adon the charactestcs justset #farti/1j can stili f reve'scl Tim fofegoug, 'togen-m- Wth ucl omer@www as hmfemfiier me ncdem no my i.fwerationik 2.1%- ns of aconstructonlushae.

"' n ,the accompanying' terlocked or L that thebricks readily 45 saidbricks ferred arrangement being as follows: At one end,preferablyopposite to the end having the socket 12, the bricks areprovidedwith interlitting protuberant portions or corru- 5 gations 14,'which are so arranged that any of the bricks can stillbe reversed and becapable of shifting to intertting relation. Where the tubes are spaced aminimum distance apartthe corrugations project, in ininterttingrelation, past each other, as shownin Fig. 4, the bricks should be ofsuch length that their adjacent ends are out of contact so as to permitthe removal of one brick without disturbing the Where there is a larger.spacing of the tubes, the bricks are supported on the tubes in themanner shown 1n Fig. 5, that is,

, the corrugations do not interlock.

additional advantage resides inl the fact that when the bricks arereversed a further range of adjustment is provided as previously pointedout and it will be apparent accommodate themselves to irregularities inthe tubes themselves as well' as in their arrangement, and

thatA l they, nevertheless, seat themselves firmly. hippingof the bricksis also practically eliminated and the manufacture is simplified er ofsizes necessary is greatly reduced. In the drawings I have shown' thepreferred embodiment of my invention only, and my invention is notlimited to the exact arrangement shown and described. v What I claimis: 1. A locomotive arch brick having a corrugated support.- engagingend, whereby 4when a plurality of the bricks are assembled in an` archstructure the bricks accommodate v'40 themselves to varying distances.between points of support. 2. A locomotive arch comprising in combination a plurality of having interi plane Vwhereby said bricksaccommodate themselves to varying Adistances between locomotive archcomprising in com- ...po ts-of support.' so

-sembled the sald portions are the bricks to and cheapened because ofthe fact a0 that the numb independently independently supf ported archbricks, and supports there'for,'

tting means exsigned my .name tending m substantially the samehorizont-,a1

ported arch bricks, and supports therefor,

said bricks having protuberant portions at an extremity 'adapted toextendl past each other in substantially the same horizontal plane^whereby the bricks accommodate themselves to varying distances betweenpoints of support.

4:. A locomotive arch brick having a tubeengaging end provided with anoifset proJ tuberant portion, soformed and arranged that when aplurality of the adapted to eX- tend past each other in substantiallythe same horizontal plane and adapt the bricks to supports spaced apartvarying distances. locomotive arch brick rated end, whereby, when aplurality of the bricks lare assembled the serrated ends are adapted toextend past veach other and adapt lit varying distances between pointsof support.

6. A locomotive arch brick having at an edge an offset protuberantportion so formed and arranged that when a plurality of bricks areassembled in an arch structure the protuberant portions at the edges ofthe bricks extend past each other in substantially the same horizontalplane to accommodate bricks to spans of the arch structure of varyingdimensions and to permit the bricks to be -supported independently ofonev another.

f locomotive arch comprising in combination a plurality of arch bricksupporting members, and `a plurality v0f arch bricks supported on saidAmembers, each brick having a protuberant porton at one edge adapted tointertit with ande tend whereby said bricks may be acto spans ,of thearhofy varying In testimony whereof; I have hereunto in the presence of thetwo subscribed Witnesses.

ALFRED H. WILLETT.

Witnesses:4

JOHN P. NEFF, y PAUL SYNNEsTvnDT.

having a serthe i

